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Before Mr. Stone could take his seat on the Smithsonian board with Robert Somers Brookings (board president of St. Louis' Washington University); Irwin Boyle Laughlin (Jones & Laughlin, steel; U. S. Ambassador to Spain); John Campbell Merriam (president of Washington's Carnegie Institution), Frederic Adrian Delano and Dwight Whitney...
"The essential objection to the submarine is that it is a weapon particularly susceptible to abuse; that it is susceptible of use against merchant ships in a way that violates alike the laws of war and the dictates of humanity. . . .
The Boundary Line is a psychological melange by Dana Burnet about a poet, his wife, a farmer, a lawyer The wife wishes to build a fence around the poet's properties. The farmer objects on the ground that he has a right of way. The poet is willing to accede...
Other Objections. Against the transfer legislation, to which there was the least general objection, Drys raised a strong complaint: they did not want the management of industrial alcohol left with the Treasury, as the Williamson bill and the Wickersham report called for. They felt that as a source of '...
Judge-Connnissioners. Attorney General Mitchell gave his approval to the Wickersham recommendation that U. S. Commissioners be empowered to try minor dry offenses. This suggestion raised the largest objection in Congress where many doubted its constitutionality. Wet Congressmen complained that it would deprive citizens of the right of trial by...